All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner dives deep into key topics for infrastructure, operations and cloud leaders around hybrid cloud, AI, leadership, cost & value, data centers and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Deliver Today. Transform Tomorrow.

Your organization’s future relies on agility, resilience, and innovation—while staying secure and efficient. As the skills gap grows, lead your team in adopting AI, mastering cloud cost optimization, and building resilient, secure, sustainable infrastructure.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: Changing Cultures
George Spafford, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders are faced with cultures they need to evolve including being more customer focused, supporting AI adoption and more. Change is not only continual but stacked. At the same time, the willingness of staff to change is at an all-time low. Join this roundtable to share with your peers lessons learned from your organization's culture changing practices, successes and challenges. ... Show More Show Less

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: Operating Model
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders are under pressure to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations. This means changes to processes, talent, organizational model, and more, all aimed at supporting the goals of the organization. Join this roundtable to share with your peers what you are doing to improve your I&O operating model. ... Show More Show Less
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PST

Roundtable: How to Control and Optimize Public Cloud Data Charges and Costs
Marissa Schmidt, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders responsible for cloud financial management (CFM) often find large and unexpected charges on their bill when moving data from the cloud and between cloud services, zones and regions. In this Roundtable we will discuss how others are controlling and optimizing them. ... Show More Show Less

02:00 PM - 02:45 PM PST

Roundtable: Learning From Others: I&O Automation Successes and Challenges
Chris Saunderson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this roundtable to hear from your peers about their successes and challenges with I&O automation - the good, the bad, and the frustrating! Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: I&O Security
Paul Furtado, VP Analyst, Gartner
Security has never been more critical to your organizations success, and to your role as a senior I&O leader. How are they working with the CSO and the information security team? Where are there challenges and opportunities to integrate security effectively and efficiently? Join this roundtable to share lessons learned with your peers. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: Generative AI
Joe Antelmi, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
No other technology has the potential to be as transformative and terrifying as generative AI. What is hype? What is reality? Where are there real world opportunities to leverage GenAI? What challenges are you encountering? Join this roundtable to share with your peers the your journey thus far. ... Show More Show Less
Thursday, December 11, 2025

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Roundtable: How Are You Managing Technical Debt in I&O?
Tony Harvey, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-led discussion to exchange best practices and challenges with identifying, prioritizing and paying down technical debt in your organization. Come prepared to share with your peers. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: Best Practices for Effective IT & Finance Partnerships
Cesar Lozada, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cost and value optimization are critical for your success as a senior I&O leader. Join this roundtable to share lessons learned about how to establish the approaches, challenges encountered, what worked, what didn't and how to report progress. ... Show More Show Less

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM PST

Senior Leadership Circle: Roundtable: Cloud Journey
Dennis Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The cloud journey that you and your teams are on are a critical enabler of the transformation. At the same time, there are costs and risks to consider including learning how to work with the vendor. Join this roundtable to hear from and share with your peers the challenges, opportunities and overall lessons learned thus far. ... Show More Show Less

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